Manager, Software Developer (Blaze)
Hyundai Capital America

Job Info

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Description

Who We Are

Through our service brands Hyundai Motor Finance, Genesis Finance, and Kia Finance, Hyundai Capital America offers a wide range of financial products tailored to meet the needs of Hyundai, Genesis, and Kia customers and dealerships. We provide vehicle financing, leasing, subscription, and insurance solutions to over 2 million consumers and businesses. Embodying our commitment to grow, innovate, and diversify, we strive to reimagine the customer and dealer experience and launch innovative new products that broaden our market reach. We believe that success comes from within and are proud to support our team members through skill development and career advancement. Hyundai Capital America is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to creating a diverse and inclusive culture for our workforce. We are a values-driven company dedicated to supporting both internal and external communities through volunteering, philanthropy, and the empowerment of our Employee Resource Groups. Together, we strive to be the leader in financing freedom of movement.

We Take Care of Our People

Along with competitive pay, as an employee of HCA, you are eligible for the following benefits:

• Medical, Dental and Vision plans that include no-cost and low-cost plan options

• Immediate 401(k) matching and vesting

• Vehicle purchase and lease discounts plus monthly vehicle allowances

• Paid Volunteer Time Off with company donation to a charity of your choice

• Tuition reimbursement

What to Expect

The Manager, Software Developer (Blaze) will manage daybreak and blaze applications focused on supporting loan and lease originations including software projects, infrastructure projects, software packages and interfaces. This role will partner with business units to understand their business plans and requirements and work with them to identify how technology can enhance their business processes. Serve as a liaison between IT and business, PMO and vendor teams. As the subject matter expert on IT and business processes the Manager, Software Developer will provide guidance on best practices considering impact of changes from a global business perspective. Lead IT and vendor teams in delivery of corporate initiatives, other project and system change requests.

What You Will Do

Application development and project delivery:

• Lead development of corporate initiatives, front office projects, enhancements and change requests. Work closely with PMO, business, and vendor partners and internal and HQ IT team members to ensure projects are estimated and delivered on schedule.

• Develop business rules and decision management solutions using FICO Blaze Advisor.

• Ensure that development stays on track and resolve issues/defects on timely manner.

• Coordinate with offshore developers and manage work assignments.

• Ensuring successful Operations Support & Project delivery of Daybreak (loan origination system) and blaze (Rules engine) Integration, Administration & process engagements.

Solution design:

• Lead development teams through design challenges helping to clear roadblocks for team members to achieve positive results. Facilitate communication of business requirements to internal and HQ IT teams

• Design to-be system based on business requirements by teaming up with HCA development and business teams for design analysis sessions and reviewing the existing architecture of the system and providing solution which meets the requirements and aligns with HCA project management and HCA architecture review guidelines.

• Provide guidance to business on IT processes and, as a subject matter expert in business functions, provide recommendations on best practices to improve systems.

• Partner with business units to understand business pain points to translate to technical/functional requirements adhering to HCA best practices while uncovering impacts to upstream or downstream processes.

• Proactively act as solution consultant bringing process improvements to business teams by fully understanding capabilities of the system and effectively communicating the value and efficiencies of a change.

• Intake business requirements to provide impact assessment identifying estimates (cost/time) to develop.

Vendor management:

• Manage vendor relationship with HCA IT's key strategic partners involved in day-to-day production, projects or other enhancements.

• Hold vendor accountable for service levels, project deliverables and milestone dates. Collect and review SOWs for completeness and accuracy. Work with PMO to ensure vendor and contractor funding in place to support IT resources involved in project or enhancement efforts.

• Assist with identifying appropriate resources and external vendors, developing schedules, and managing external vendors and internal resources to ensure successful implementation of the assigned applications.

Production support:

• Lead and coordinate the development, designing, coding, testing, debugging, and implementation of blaze and daybreak applications using Blaze Rules Engine, Java, and Database queries, adhering to corporate requirements and standards.

• Schedule design and code review sessions with development teams and business teams to enforce design, coding standards and best practices for projects and enhancements requests.

• Manage and ensure SCRs are opened and properly updated throughout enhancement and/or project lifecycle. Ensure proper SCR audit trail and documentation present in preparation for CCB deployment approval. Represent IT at deployment approval meetings.

• Monitor and test application performance for potential bottlenecks, identify possible solutions, and work with developers to implement those fixes.

• Troubleshoot and provide guidance to production support teams on escalated system issues working with development teams and production support to propose and implement solutions.

Qualifications

What You Will Bring

• Excellent leadership skills

• Strong problem solving and analytical skills

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to effectively interact with business stakeholders, vendors, and technical teams.

• Strong programming language and database experience.

• Proven track record of successfully participating in all aspects of a software development project.

• Good understanding of SQL.

• Experience in Tibco or any other middleware tools.

• Java / J2ee development experience.

• Experience in performance tuning and optimization of rule engines.

• Familiarity with cloud-based deployment and microservices architecture.

• Experience with Web logic or similar application server.

• Experience with Jenkins or similar CI tools.

• Minimum 8 years of FICO Blaze development experience and successfully leading large scale Enterprise projects.

• Strong experience in designing and maintaining complex rulesets and design structures.

• Experience in any loan origination applications.

• Experience in Java or any other programming languages.

• Experience with implementing scorecards and risk models.

• Experience in production support/maintenance for a large enterprise application.

• Financial services and/or automotive industry experience preferred.

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Technology, or related field desired

Work Environment

Employees in this class are subject to extended periods of sitting, standing and walking, vision to monitor and moderate noise levels. Work is performed in an office environment.

The posted salary range for this job takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; geographic location, and other business and organizational needs. Successful candidates may be hired anywhere in the salary range based on these factors. It is uncommon to hire candidates at or near the top of the range.

California Privacy Notice

This notice only applies to our applicants who reside in the State of California.

The latest version of our Privacy Policy can be found here. This Privacy Policy provides you with notice, at or before the point of collection, about the categories of personal information to be collected from you, the purposes for which your personal information is collected or used, and whether that information is sold or shared, so that you can exercise meaningful control over our use of your personal information.We are providing this notice to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, as amended as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 ("CCPA").

If you have any questions about CCPA regarding California residents or HCA team members, please contact the Privacy Team at Privacy2@hcs.com.

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